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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Fiona Harvey Environment editor

Tony Blair’s oil lobbying is a misleading rehash of fossil fuel industry spin

A worker guides gas-drilling pipes on a rig.
A worker guides gas-drilling pipes on a rig. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

A thinktank with close ties to Saudi Arabia and substantial funding from a Donald Trump ally needs to present a particularly robust analysis to earn the right to be listened to on the climate crisis. On that measure, Tony Blair’s latest report fails on almost every point.

The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (TBI) received money from the Saudi government, has advised the United Arab Emirates petrostate, and counts as a main donor Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, friend of Trump and advocate of AI.

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